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Aleksandr Sapozhkov
Mar 20, 2017Copper Contributor
Separating object cache accounts for web applications
It's no surprise that SharePoint allows to configure separate pair of object cache accounts for each web application. However, the question is whether there is any benefit of applying different set o...
- Mar 22, 2017Again, cache accounts are used for comparative purposes only. They hold no data. There is no reason to separate them.
Dean_Gross
Mar 20, 2017Silver Contributor
It is my understanding that the only reason to do that would be if you had some very stringent security requirements that dictated the usage of service accounts.
Aleksandr Sapozhkov
Mar 21, 2017Copper Contributor
Hello Dean, thank you for your answer. To my opinion any security policy should be based on vulnerabilities analysis so what I'm trying to get my head around is what kind of security isues brings using single set of cache accounts among a few web apps.